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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Dorothy J Heydt   
   Re: AKICIF: Capitalizing Book Titles   
   17 Jan 26 08:55:53   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:13:45 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
      
   > In article <10kdp51$1kju4$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I personally think this was because computers could not handle them   
   >> as single letters, and sort algorithms in particular would just   
   >> break.   
   >   
   > Not really true... It depends on how the text is coded internally.   
      
   Depending solely on the text encoding for word sorting is pretty   
   naïve, don’t you think.   
      
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